, is to be put in subjection under Him.
"Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet." All these
blessed truths are stated in this chapter of Hebrews.

In regard to a subdued earth we read: "But now we see not yet all
things put under Him." That was true when the Holy Spirit penned
these words. This is still true and it will be true until the Father
bringeth in the First begotten into the world, when not alone all
the angels of God will worship Him (Heb. i:6), but when God will
make His enemies the footstool of His blessed feet (Psalm cx:1).

However this coming triumph for Him who was made a little lower than
the angels is not the glorious vision of this chapter. It is time by
faith we may behold the glorious consummation as revealed in the
prophetic Word, but here another vision for our present rejoicing
and present help is put before us. While we see not yet all things
put under His feet "we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than
the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor."

This is the great vision for the present. This is what the Holy
Spirit wants us to behold more than anything else. Of Stephen it is
written: "He being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the
right hand of God" (Acts vii:55). And whenever the Holy Spirit fills
us He will direct the vision of the eyes of our heart to Him who was
made a little lower than the angels and who is now in heaven crowned
with glory and honor. And only the _power_ of the Holy Spirit
filling us can make this great fact and vision a reality.

But what does this glorious vision mean to _us?_ What does it teach
us? Oh, much more than the weak pen of the writer can tell out.

The blessed One who is there crowned with glory and honor is the One
who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of
death; He bore our sins on the cross and died for us. What a
blessed, blessed proof then it is, as we behold Him there, that our
sins are completely and forever gone!

But more than that. In seeing Him there we behold ourselves. The
deliverer of our souls at the right hand of God, the second man,
crowned with glory and honor, is the pattern and forerunner of all
who belong to Him and whom He is not ashamed to call brethren. Grace
has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the
heavenlies in Christ Jesus (Eph. ii:5, 6).

Our eternal destiny